Trends in Mobile Medicine: Smartphone Apps for Physicians

December 28, 2011
RESOURCE TYPE
White Paper
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PDF
DATE ADDED
December 28, 2011
AUTHOR(S)
mHIMSS

While the most sophisticated smartphones dominate North American and European markets, in the developing world apps running on the Symbian platform and even simple SMS texts are transforming healthcare provision: Rural healthcare workers guided by urban physicians can diagnose and treat patients that previously had extremely limited care access, vaccine programs are using cell/mobile phones for data compilation and SMS messages are increasing programs’ effectiveness and patient drug compliance.

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